Es'kia Mphahlele

Es'kia Mphahlele was born on 17 December 1919 in Marabastad, in the suburbs of Pretoria, and spent his first years at his grandmother's, in a village. A pupil at Rosettenville, a graduate of the teacher training school of Adams College, he taught English and Afrikaans until his opposition to the Bantu Education Act closed the public schools to him. In 1957 he left for an exile of twenty years, in Nigeria, Kenya, France and the United States, where he obtained a doctorate at Denver. Returning in 1977, he headed from 1983 to 1987 the department of African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. He died in 2008.

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